subject: Priest Leveling Guide - Discover The Best Talent Build [print this page] As a priest, you can choose whether to go with the Holy path or the Shadow path. Both path have very different talent build and role in the game. This guide will talking mainly about Holy priest talent build.
Basically, there are two big 'major' for those who play priest: the "Holy Priest", which is your typical healing-support priest and "Shadow Priest" which is focus on killing skills.
Priest Talent Builds
To begin with, you will need to invest on Healing Focus and Improved Renew. Put 2 points in Healing Focus and 3 in Improved Renew; it is vital that you could heal more without being interrupted.
Your next tasks is get Spell Warding and Divine Fury to maximum level to raise your survivability. Add one point to Desperate Player, it will heal you right away, also one more skill to prolong your life.
Maxing Holy Reach will give you 20% extra range for 6 different spells, make you stay in safe range and keep the survivability of your group members. Improved Healing is must be maxed too since it will decrease the mana cost for five different spells.
Conserve your mana with Healing Prayers; at max, you can get 20% mana cost reduction for two spells. As for Spirit of Redemption, you don't want to use this often since it will make you die, but one point in this talent can save your group from a chaotic situation, so take this one as a reserve.
No one in your group will expect you to contribute significant damage, but 5 points in Spiritual Guidance can comes in handy when the situation demands.
You might have read other recommendation about Surge of Light; in my opinion, take this talent only if you are going to use Smite and Flash Heal repeatedly later at higher level. For Spiritual Healing, you definitely want this as a Holy Priest because it will increase your healing spells by 10%.
A Lightwell will benefit the entire group during a raid; it heal anyone in your group that click it. It is not instant healing, but it is a good way to keep your mana for more demanding situation.
Put two points in Empowered Healing to boost your greater healing and three in Serendipity to reduce your next spell casting; these will open the next talents.
These next three talents are very important for a Holy Priest; I suggest that you maxed all of them. Empowered Renew can make your Renew heal the target immediately; Circle of Healing enabling you to heal up to 5 friendly party or raid members within range; Test of Faith enhance healing rate on a party members whose health below 50%; this will increase the possibility to save him/her.
These two last talents have many variation in different Priest Leveling Guide, some will say to invest the rest of the points in the Discipline Tree, but for this build, I will include it as well. Put three points in Divine Providence to gain access to the next talent; three points will give you 6% boost in some healing spells. The last in the holy tree, Guardian Spirit, can make your tank even harder, thus make it easier for you to keep him/her alive during unpredictable situation.
Being a Holy Priest, you need to have better survival rate yourself, so put the last 20 points in the Discipline tree. Keeping yourself alive comes first prior to take care of the others health and a group will be in a very disadvantage situation when their healer dies, so these are the best way to spend the rest of your points:
1. Unbreakable Will; decrease the duration of several negative effects, allow you to back into battle faster.
2. Silent Resolve; make your helpfull spells and DoT spells become harder to dispelled.
3. Improved Power Word: Fortitude; improve Fortitude and Prayer Fortitude by 30%.
4. Martyrdom; obtain Focused Casting effect for 6 seconds after getting hit by critical range or melee attack.
5. Meditation; when you casting spells (which probably something that you will do at all time in battle), you still have 50% of your mana regeneration continues.
6. Inner Focus; reduce mana cost for the next spell by 100% and increase its critical rate by 25%.
7. Improved Power Word: Shield; boost Shield word by 15%.
This priest leveling guide is focus on priest talent builds; as for leveling places you can visit instances dungeon with your group or leveling through quests. Quests is far better because you will get your gears as rewards, so don't have to spend gold for it; it also a lot faster way to reach maximum level (IF you are do it in the correct order).
